Combined Energy Services marks its 50th year in 2018. CES started in 1968, as Taylor Oil in Walt & Patricia Taylor's kitchen. Pat would answer the home phone with her 4-year-old & infant son. Walt worked for a different local heating oil distributor by day, then would deliver oil to their customers at night, purchasing his heating fuel from his boss. Didn't take long until the Taylors bought a local Atlantic gasoline station in Monticello and moved the home office. They then added their own fuel oil storage tanks on a parcel in neighboring Thompsonville, NY. The rest is basically history- over the next 50 years, CES has grown into one of largest family owned propane gas & heating oil companies in the region and now serves the Tri-state of NY, PA & NJ.